Vanderlei Martins

Dr. J. Vanderlei Martins has received a Bachelor’s degree in Physics in 1991, a Master’s degree in Physics/Nuclear Applied Physics in 1994, and a Ph.D. in Physics/Applied Physics in 1999 from the University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil.  He joined the Group of Air Pollution Studies at the Institute of Physics (USP) in 1990, and conducted research in environmental and atmospheric applied physics.  In particular, he developed analytical nuclear techniques using particle accelerators for material analysis, including aerosols and tree-rings, and participated in several ground-based and aircraft field experiments studying properties of aerosols from biomass burning and biogenic emissions.

He was a member of the University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences’ Cloud and Aerosols Research Group, from November 1995 to August 1996, and of the NASA GSFC Climate and Radiation Branch from August to December 1996, both as a Visiting Scientist.  He taught at the University Sao Judas Tadeu between 1998 and 1999 while conducting research at the University of Sao Paulo.  After starting his postdoctoral work at the University of Sao Paulo, he joined JCET in December 1999 as a Visiting Assistant Research Scientist.

He has authored and co-authored over 25 refereed papers and has given over 60 presentations at international conferences, the most recent being on the spectral absorption properties of aerosol particles, and on the measurement of the vertical profile of cloud microphysical and thermodynamic properties.  He served as elected member of the International Radiation Commission from 2001-2008.  In 2006 he assumed an Associate Professor position in the Department of Physics of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, while keeping his affiliation with the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology.